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Thoughts and thinking

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Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven